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Smith and Wesson Model 340
May 14, 2012
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Sometimes even the busiest days are pretty fun. We are finishing the July issue of American Rifleman after coming off an intense week of filming the third quarter of “American Rifleman Television.” We on the magazine staff already have full-time jobs, but we put in some pretty intense weeks on television production. But sometimes there is a lot of fun buried in that intensity.
May 14, 2012
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Between a time-tested company reputation that’s over 150 years strong and the classic J-Frame design, there’s plenty going for our very first Gun of the Week: The Smith & Wesson M&P 340.
May 14, 2012
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This is the view through the “American Rifleman Television” remote camera as we fired the most impressive gun of the season for the third quarter of 2012. Thanks to Jim Supica, Phil Schreier, Doug Wicklund and Matt Sharpe of the National Firearms Museum, I can now say I have shot what I regard as undoubtedly the coolest 18th century gun extant. The Nock Volley Gun is one of the most unusual service firearms of the Napoleonic era. It was a flintlock with seven barrels, one central barrel with six more surrounding the latter, sort of like a pepperbox. The difference, of course, is that all seven barrels fire at once with the Nock—it only happens to the extremely unlucky (or careless) with a Pepperbox. Think of a Nock as a deliberate chain fire waiting to happen.
May 02, 2012
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The Smith & Wesson M&P line, the Springfield XD(M), the M14 and more will make an appearance on American Rifleman TV this May.
May 01, 2012
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I Have This Old Gun: Belgian Browning Superposed
April 19, 2012
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Mark Keefe discusses the brand new Beretta A300 Outlander with Beretta USA's Ryan Muety.
April 06, 2012
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What's Going On with Gun Sales?
April 03, 2012
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The Savage Model 11, the Smith & Wesson Model 52, the SIG Sauer M400 Carbine and much more come to American Rifleman TV in April.
April 02, 2012
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Late last year I was fortunate enough to visit Ruger’s factory in Newport, N.H., and get a preview of what the American gunmaker had in the pipeline for 2012. Ruger doesn’t like to release information on its new firearms until the guns are already in production and ready to ship to distributors. That way, if you hear about a new Ruger and want one, it is not like trying to order a unicorn from your local gun shop.
March 28, 2012
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In 2010 Donald Trump, Jr., and his brother Eric Trump went on safari in Zimbabwe. Photos from the safari were obtained without permission and posted online. The hunt included elephant, Cape buffalo, leopard and crocodile. The images drew the expected vitriol from anti-hunting extremists, such as PETA and other organizations that want to ban all hunting, regardless of where it is or who is doing it. In response to those attacks Don tweeted, “I’m a hunter, for that I make no apologies.”
March 27, 2012
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Sometimes you are the go-to guy or girl. You are the one in your peer group or social network that appears to know the most about firearms. This is a more weighty responsibility than one might think. In our office, I imagine more so than some places of employment, we talk about guns … a lot. Were we to have an actual water cooler (denied yet again in the fiscal 2012 budget), it would no doubt compare to the Fountain of Knowledge (or in Col. Potter’s parlance, perhaps, a “Fountain of Horse Hockey”) for most things regarding firearms. But we assume certain knowledge, a certain level of experience and a certain physiognomy that affect how we discuss firearms.
March 26, 2012
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Join Maj. John L. Plaster as he discusses the sniper warfare that American troops face everyday in the Middle East in his presentation "Sniper War Afghanistan."
March 13, 2012
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Historian Martin K.A. Morgan joins American Rifleman at the NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits to discuss the M16, combat rifle of the U.S. for 50 years.
March 13, 2012
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American Rifleman Editor-in-Chief Mark Keefe talks to LaserLyte's Aaron Moore about the company's new Zombie Killer accessories.
March 06, 2012
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